The book of Nursery Rhymes Complete From the Creation of the World to the Pres
The book of Nursery Rhymes Complete From the Creation of the World to the Pres
Edith Emerson Forbes
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Say the bells of Stepney. I am sure I don't know, Says the great bell at Bow. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a chopper to chop off your head. 114 NURSERY RHYMES. 194. Intery, mintery, cutery-corn, Apple seed and apple thorn ; Wine, brier, limber-lock. Five geese in a flock, Sing and sing by a spring, 0-u-T, and in again. 195. [The game of water-skimming is of high antiquity, being mentioned by Julius Pollux, and also by Eustathius, in his commentary upon Ho- mer. Brand ...quotes a curious passage from Minucius Felix; but all antiquaries seem to have overlooked the very curious notice in Higins' adaptation of Junius's " Nomenclator, " 8vo. , Lond. 1585, p. 299, where it is called " a duck and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake. " Thus it is probable that lines like the following were employed in this game as early as 1585 ; and it may be that the last line has recently furnished a hint to Mathews in his amusing song in " Patter v. Clatter. "] A Duck and a drake, A nice barley-cake.
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